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I am right there with you. I realized how addicted I was to food when I was on the liver shrinking diet. One Saturday my family were all up and in our living room while I lay in my bed terrified and depressed because I couldn't think of a reason to get out of bed. I didn't want to get out of bed because it didn't make sense to get up there wasn't anything worth eating that I could eat so I just wanted to sleep through the diet. I told my husband through my tears to wake me up in a week when it was all over. So after my little pitty party then I thought Ok I gotta get a grip. Just think about all of the time I will have to be with my 5year old and 6 month old because I'm not spending 1hour fixing everything I want to eat and another hour eating it. My daughter loves to spend time working out with me. She thinks it's just the greatest thing now and asks me to work out with her all of the time

My gosh, thank you all for posting this info. I've been silently terrified, losing my hair. I have always had very thick hair and a lot of it until recently. I'm feeling absolutely devastated because I've worked for so long to get my hair this length - it's about 4 inches lower than the bottom of my bra. My hair has fuzzies all over and some areas it's starting to become noticeable for me. I could usually only wrap a coated rubber band around a ponytail twice and now I can wrap it 3 times. I am feeling quite overwhelmed by this - I can deal with sliming and PBs and saggy skin and all that nonsense, but my hair? Please God, no. I'd not heard of this as a side effect until recently when I actually started looking for answers. I've tried oil treatments, hair masques, wearing it up, wearing it down, only washing it every 3-4 days, buying new brushes and wide-toothed combs - everything and I feel like I'm shedding more than our dogs. I'm embarrassed and feeling like I'll never have normal hair again - what may have resolved for someone else doesn't mean it will resolve for me. I'm 5 months out from surgery - June 29th was banded - and I've lost about 55 lbs. Weight loss is going well, fills have gone well, save one (he put in double on accident and I had to be unfilled and given fluids in the ER). Yes, life is stressful right now but I don't see that changing for a while.
Sorry for the rant, just feeling overwhelmed and Hair loss is the last thing I needed right now.
I take a Multivitamin - Vitafusion Gummy Vites - I try to take 4 a day now (2 servings) - 1 in the am, 1 in the pm. I probably don't get enough Protein, but I'm working on that. I don't take any Iron or zinc or anything extra. Does anyone have any recommendations for not terrible tasting, reasonably priced supplements? I am surprised no one has come out with a widely available chewable just for bariatrics pts - like prenatals.
Thanks to all...
One more thing - I try to take Fiber daily - sometimes a supplement, sometimes Fiber One products, because since surgery being "regular" has been a real issue. The fiber gives me so much gas which is painful that I end up skipping it sometimes.